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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 20 Apr 2021

@Aelkus I treat & regard influenza & Covid as serious diseases. Yet relative to the 1889-90 & 1918-20 pandemics, Covid is genuinely mild. What, then, explains our fierce terror about it? Life, modernism and us existentially revealed as lacking the security, order and control we imagine?